KISS Chasing The Bon Jovi Trend On Crazy Nights

[@drewgeraci8434]

"Any band of the time song" - Exactly!

[@martyhafermann938]

I just had the song Crazy Nights in my head today while driving. And now here is your video. Wow

[@vesper7082]

Now thats crazy

[@mikewilson3581]

I've probably said this here in the past, but Billy Squire got a lot of hate for his 'Rock Me Tonight ' video while Paul got a free pass in the 80's dressing like a fruit and prancing around.

[@Scottocaster6668]

Yeah, no kidding dude. I saw Paul on stage, lick his lips, and pinch his own nipple while LOOKING at the camera!! The biggest WTF moment in my life. The wife said, : "Scott, he is fucking gay!!" 😆😆😆

[@edilrosas]

we still have nightmares of the pink glove !

[@anyfoolknowthat]

Good point- 85-86 there was fairy dust on a lot of bands… but only Billy got put on the cross

[@infalliblerocks]

I love Crazy Nights it got me into KISS and led me to buy every KISS album. Crazy Nights was the highest US charting KiSS album for KISS in the 80's. It went Platinum in the US and Canada and was their highest charting and best selling album in the UK with album and first single making Number 4 there so it definitely deserves more respect.

[@1ssjesus]

I remember an interview Paul gave in 1988 where he discussed when Bon Jovi toured with them in 1984 and Jon asked him about song writers to work with to have hit songs and he suggested Desmond Child because of the work he did on the Dynasty record. It was an interesting listen.

[@Jet_Electro]

In 1987 our small town cable company finally got MTV and 13-14 year old me saw the Crazy crazy nights video and liked the energy. I bought the cassette tape and became a fan. In hindsight it’s not a great record but I have a soft spot for it. I’d like to hear a remixed version with less keyboard/synth and more guitars but I doubt that will ever happen.

[@andyandrew7557]

I never had an issue with Kiss chasing the Bon Jovi/Motley Crue 80s trend as I like the music they have made in every decade that they were active as a band & I can appreciate all eras of KISS. Perhaps even the KISS MTV unplugged concert was them chasing trends yet again too, but I've always loved that album and it really showed another side to Kiss without the bombs and the big stage show

[@roymartin500]

"We are Desmond, Desmond, Desmond, Desmond Child Nights woooo ohh!"

[@infalliblerocks]

Adam Mitchell co-wrote that one with Paul not Desmond. Desmond co-wrote Bang Bang You and Reason to Live on the album though. To be fair part of Bon Jovi's success was Paul introduced Jon to Desmond. Desmond's first big hit was with KISS on "I Was Made for Loving You"

[@williamcoyle7226]

Absolutely on point! They always chased trends. Even their own.

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

You know you have a problem as a famous band, when you start copying and chasing your own opening younger band like they'd later do with Bon Jovi.

[@MKmarcos97]

Dude these gay photos with hairy chest from Paul are pure gold. He had no idea how ridiculous this shit would look In the future 🤣

[@TranceMasterJack]

Put on a damn shirt Paul!

[@russdance7959]

Up yours from all us hairy chested men everywhere 🤣

[@roymartin500]

Hahaha, well he has to take ppls eyes away from his Dopey Face :D

[@ZachyB98]

Just saying man, women LOVE a hairy chest. I’ve even converted some ladies thinking they wouldn’t like it. My current gf demanded me to grow it back. I decided to shave it awhile back, and she was NOT happy.

[@russdance7959]

@@ZachyB98 I go as far as dying mine 😂

[@BazookaToe]

This tour was my first time seeing KISS. What a strange period looking back. Guys in the audience were wearing these pink, yellow, whatever color of the rainbow silk long tail tuxes I guess you would say. More makeup than their girlfriends. Me and my crew stood there looking like the Ramones were dropped in the capital of planet Bizarro, no shot at hooking up with these girls who now looking back, appeared to be dating taller versions of themselves.

[@dimebagdave77]

That was a lot of fun and i appreciate it Doc🤘😁 edit: Desmond Child shouldve been barred from the sessions

[@Markotto09]

I was one of the 7K in Los Angeles for the video shoot. We got a shirt, and watched mini concert after they got all the footage for their video. As a 70’s baby, KISS could do no wrong (yes former KISStard here, lol) until Mercyful Fate and Venom came on the scene. Then KISS became part of the backdrop until the Reunion Tour. Just glad I grew up when music kicked ass.

[@jessedeeeeee]

KISS Final Rank of 20 studio albums. No live albums. 1 Destroyer 2 Dressed to kill 3 crazy nights 4 Kiss 5 The Elder 6 love Gun/R&R over 7 Hotter than hell/Revenge 8 Creatures of the night/Dynasty/Psycho Circus 9 unmasked 10 Asylum 11 Hot in the shade 12 Monster 13 lick it up 14 carnival of souls 15. Animal 16. Sonic Boom

[@sgtboz9730]

Don't forget when Paul Thanley of Kith was trying to emulate DLR in the early 80s.

[@TheChadTI]

It was no secret that Paul was obsessed with the success of Bon Jovi. People close to the band at the time would report this virtually verbatim.

[@JanaWright-ii6qz]

Paul Thtanley is my dude but the Gene songs on Crazy Nights are the best. 1 Good Girl Gone Bad 2 Thief in the Night 3 No No No 4 Hell or High Watet

[@mikebell2112]

Rush did some trend chasing too.

[@Markis5150]

You sorta cant blame them for Crazy Nights though. Here they saw these bands that they could destroy on stage racking up hits left and right,might as well go with the flow and go for it as well. Now the single Crazy Nights I always hated,but the others that came behind it I liked. Reason to live,Turn on the night,good stuff. And for me Gene had the best tune on that record, Good girl gone bad. A good sleathy mellow rocker that showcased his laid back style in that one. And holy shit has it been that long?! I remember grabbing Revenge and having my balls rocked with that one. That is Gene,that whole record where he once said he found his balls again when he made that record.

[@thebluesrockers]

The intro solo on "No No No" & the song "Thief In The Night" were the only things worth hearing on "Crazy Nights" I hated the direction of this album. I liked a few tunes from "Creatures Of The Night" & 2 songs on "Lick It Up" but "Lick It Up" was 100 times better than all the other albums that followed it. "Revenge" only had a few tunes on it. Kiss has been lucky to make a album that has more that two or three tunes on it since "Dynasty."

[@metall1983]

Thought it was trying to sound like heart the 85 album

[@roymartin500]

@@metall1983 yeah, the one with What About Love? & These Dreams.

[@tylernolan9804]

This album reminds me more of Michael Bolton's first couple albums which also had Bruce Kulick

[@johnkriete2152]

I saw that tour. Gene tapped a security guard, who was abusing his power, on the head with his foot and shook his finger at him. Awesome

[@Idollisimo]

I loved "Crazy Nights" when it came out but at that time I was all about this stuff, I just got into such bands as Europe, Crue, etc. I dunno, man. I loved KISS when they were trying things, you know. When they were searching for something. I loved the fact that their talent lets them be the best in everything (well, for a teenage fan they were THE BEST IN EVERYTHING). Rock'n'roll, metal, 80s hair glam, disco rock, grunge - they've tried them all and they were amazing in each and every style. Every era had amazing songs and I was proud to be a Kiss fan because it was never boring to be one. It wasn't like being an Iron Maiden fan if you know what I mean :)) Kiss was finished for me when they stopped searching. I can't even listen to "Monster", it's so disgusting for me.

[@markbirchette8740]

Gotta agree, trend chasing from the beginning.

[@flazjsg]

Rush did too, although most fans don't want to admit it.

[@Gizzorge]

Psycho Circus is just bullet with butterfly wings reworked

[@lrm215]

I thought the same some of this stuff sounds like Heart (1985) and they had the same producer Ron Nevison

[@rickmoffatt2024]

I am fan no makeup kiss know what like the song forever yeah know it's cheesy but it's a good song and turn on the night that's song it's 80s sounding but I like it another song I like is turn.on the night even like the video too it as for Revenge unholy that's song ROCK

[@davidzabel5195]

Every band chases trends and steals from other bands to some degree.

[@johnhanes4442]

Perhaps but KISS was shameless in it. Besides, other bands at least make the trends their own. KISS just jumped on whatever was trendy at the moment and it always came off as insincere.

[@davidzabel5195]

@@johnhanes4442 I don’t disagree with you.

[@johnhanes4442]

@@davidzabel5195 Ok 😂

[@infalliblerocks]

Yep and Bon Jovi once supported KISS.

[@jonnyriggs4372]

I love 80’s cheese and Crazy Crazy Nights is as cheesy as it gets. I like it but I can’t defend it. Just do as the Doctor ordered and listen to Black Sabbath 🤘

[@HappyMachorino-bd8no]

My acceptance for "chasing trends" comes from the real working world. Everybody does "copying". And tries to create a better product. But KISS is still always KISS 💋. "Crazy Nights" is a great album. All songs, especially "I'll Fight Hell To Hold You" and "Thief In The Night" are absolutely Paul and Gene. Bon Jovi? They never meant much to me.

[@paulosicne8498]

Desmond Child hits. LOL!

[@sarcastanaut]

I was done with KISS at Animalize.

[@tobyparsons2480]

I got 20 for a track by track battle ,,don't know how to send it

[@controlZchannel]

Can't blame an aging band from wanted to remain relevant and not seem stuck in the past.

[@retarteddwarf2182]

Wok -n- Woll Kwazy Nites. Meh...

[@uuu098]

This album seemed to have all the right ingredients to be successful but it just fell flat with people and I'm still not sure why. Ron Nevison had success with Ozzy and Heart at the time, like you said, but there was just something about this album that just didn't land right. It can 't be that Kiss already seemed like old news because Ozzy and Heart had been around for years as well. Crazy Crazy Nights is a hokey and trite song. Reason to Live sounds like a Foreigner song. Bang Bang You might be their second worst song (Ready My Body is the worst).

[@mikesyria1787]

Bon Jovi is a chick band. I can listen to there shit when a rap song comes on the radio

[@suncoasterstv6512]

Don't forget their attempt at copying Aerosmith's success of "Don't want to miss a thing" with that god awful song on the Detroit Rock City soundtrack

[@surfsup5757]

Crazy Nights had the dubious distinction of the suckiest KISS album since Unmasked.

[@unclephilly2127]

bundle of sticks. fanook.

[@JASN-oj5qu]

I wipe my ass with Crazy Nights.

[@LEIFanevret]

And it went sour! Big time! Cant be what you aint! Kiss chaps! Paulies imaginative world came tumbling down! Geenies imaginative movie existence poor awesome honest Eric Carr! And Bruce

[@zoostew8354]

Lolololol…Pfaul fthstanley….lolol,there it is…never gets old…I mean..,without Peter n Ace,there isn’t anything there..there just isn’t.,yeah,I mean,they had some great musicians filling in Peter n Aces shoes…but,there was no chemistry,just Pfaul , Gene making cash off of crap…

[@diamondd2778]

It's a cr#p album

[@johnhanes4442]

The single worst KISS album with no single redeeming qualities. At least HOTS had one or 2 good songs. I remember a friend lending me the cassette of Crazy Nights when it firsy came out. I couldn't even make it all the way through side 2. I was absolutely angry that this is where they went.

[@renatamalvern670]

Kiss lost me after that album, stopped listening to them. 🇦🇺

[@johnkriete2152]

I saw that tour. Gene tapped a security guard, who was abusing his power, on the head with his foot and shook his finger at him. Awesome